Dollars Chat

What does it have to do with me? Well, I made the cool avatars that you’re already (if you’re not, get moving) using. But this wasn’t enough, so we though we’re going to give you even more.
*APPLAUSE*

We are going to make more (yes, more) cool avatars and you are going to choose what’s next. Your favorite anime waifu? The most badass video game character? The dog-belonging-to-the-secondary-character-that-was-in-one-chapter-

of-that-one-manga-you-don’t-remember-the-name-of-but-probably-dealt-with-high-school-students? Just post your suggestions in the comments and we will check them and see if they’re viable to become Durarara-like avatars. Please note that the subject must not be too complex (not because I’m too lazy, but because the graphic style isn’t suitable for complex designs). Also note that the chat is still in sort-of-beta, so there may be bugs or or traits to be improved. Enough chitchatting (did you get the pun? :D), we want you to comments, so post feedback about the chat (what is missing and what could be improved), suggestions about the next avatars to come and your opinion on this project. Thanks for the attention.

Disclaimer: FoOlRulez is in no way affiliated with Ryohgo Narita, Dengeki Bunko, ASCII Media Works, Brain’s Base, Dullahans and/or Vending Machine companies. It is indeed affiliated with me, otherwise you wouldn’t be reading this post, you dummy. Also, we won’t  really do any avatar about that dog-that-was-in-[...]. That was a lie.

Here are the avatars.

http://foolrulez.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/tanaka-taro.png

http://foolrulez.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/setton.png

http://foolrulez.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/kanra.png

Don’t worry, Saika will be coming soon.

The need: showing two posts on the same level from two different categories and divide one of the two categories in its sub-categories.

The result: a homepage that shows all the latest posts from any category without the need to reload (AJAX used) and two features, simmetrical.

I wanted to make the editing of this theme as easy as possible, which means I have created a (kind of big) theme options page so anyone can fix the theme at own need. Hide the title, display ads a bit everywhere, change the captions: you can do all of that through the theme options.

I suggest to use with this theme WP-Pagenavi and Get-the-image plugins. Even though it’s not absolutely necessary, they make this theme look way better.

The features:

• SEO ready
• Options page
• ADs/HTML spaces via options
• Switches for showing or hiding parts of the website
• All the captions can be edited via control panel
• AJAX for loading categories
• jQuery for moving effects in home page
• Threaded comments
• Two functional tabs in home (they’re sidebars, use the white spaces with useful widgets as applications!)
• Search (yes, it’s a feature)
• Sidebar in posts/pages
• Control panel button in the footer
• An extremely cool diamond whenever something is being loaded via AJAX!

Missing:

• Archives
• The top white bar: that’s not part of the theme, it’s our website framework. ¬.¬

Demo you say? There’s no demo as for now, it would take many hours to create a decent one. You can see this very website, but ignore the top white bar (that’s not part of the theme). I’ll add here pics of the not active features:

Big options page, but with explanations.

Hide the tabs you don't need.

Up to 9 categories listed

Show the title/subtitle/ad or all of them together!

The theme still doesn’t have a whole help manual – you shouldn’t need it. Please, post here suggestions and bugs, so I will be able to fix them and release the (epic) version 1.o.

As for now, here’s version 0.8.2:

Not available for download.

-Release notes:

0.8.2
Fixed a bug making the middle tabs not work if the categories selected weren’t exactly 8.
Added page browsing links in case WP-Pagenavi is not available.
Added a system to fetch images also without Get-the-images.
Added a system that shortens excerpts that are too long. It still needs to be refined on the numbers. Useless when the excerpt has new lines in it. It elegantly deactivates if the user added his own excerpt.
0.8.1:
There was a bug in the “features/paged.php” file, an extra “endif” making the theme not work.